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“You ever want to leave?” she asked him one morning.

“Your mother died,” the woman said. Sheena didn’t recognize her. “She wanted you to have these.” sheena ryder lowtru

Sheena thought about that for a long time. She thought about her mother, who stopped being a mother the moment she became a Ryder. She thought about her father, who stopped being a father the moment he became a Lowtru. She wondered what she would have to stop being in order to finally become something. “You ever want to leave

Her only friend was an old man named Edgar who lived three trailers down. Edgar had fought in a war no one talked about and now spent his days building intricate ships inside glass bottles. He said it taught him patience. Sheena would sit on his porch steps after her shift, the sun just beginning to pink the sky, and watch his gnarled fingers guide tiny masts through narrow necks. “She wanted you to have these